Means for shaping laundried collars.



UNITED STATES Patented June 6, 1905.

JOHN-T. TRUITT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

MEANS FOR'SH'APING LAUNDRIED COLLARS.

SPECIFICATION-forming part of Letters'latent No. 791,734, dated June 6, 1905.

Application led May 23, 1904. Serial No. 209,275.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. TRUITT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city o'f St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Shaping Laundried Collars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication.

My invention relates to a means for shaping laundried turn-down collars, whereby the two folds of the collars are made to present approximately parallel lines instead of one fold being flared outwardly with relation to the other, as i`s commonly the case after the collars have been ironed.

Figure I isa vertical section taken through my collar-shaping means. Fig. II is a horizontal section takenonline II II, Fig. I.

1 designates an outer cylinder or jacket that is connected to a stand 2 at its upper end. Fitted to the lower end of said jacket is a head 3, that has connected toit asteamorhotair conducting pipe 4:,'which has communication with the interior of said jacket through said head. 5 is a second steam or hot-air conducting pipe attached to the jacket 1.

, The inner cylinder is open at both ends and of uniform diameter throughout its entire length and is preferably polishedinteriorly.

.In the practical use of my collar-shaping means a heatingv medium, such as steam or hot air, is conducted into the jacket 1 through one of the pipes 4 5--for instance, the pipe 5-and n'ds escape from said jacket through vthe other pipe-for instance, the pipe 4. The

collars to be shaped are, after being ironed, first dampened at the foldingfpoint and introduced into the inner tube 10 at its upper end,

being placed alternately right side up and inverted, as illustrated by dotted lines, Fig. I. As the collars descend through theinner tube they are subjected to heat imparted to said cylinder, due to the presence of heating medium in the jacket 1, and being confined in curved condition Within the tube, so that their folds will remain approximately parallel, the dampened portions of the collarsare quickly freed of V,their moisture, so that they will retain their folded condition with the folds lying atly together andpass on through the -tube in such condition.

Iclaim as my invention- In a collar-shaping means, theicombination of a stand, a heating-medium-receiving jacket setV into the stand and'd'epending. therefrom,

stufling-boxes at the top and bottom' of saidv jacket, andla collar-receiving tubelocated within the 'jacket and of uniform diameter throughoutits entire length; said tube having 

